LI RARY 



CONTENTS.^ V^ ^ 



Silk 



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BOOK XI. 



THE VARIOUS KINDS OF INSECTS. 

 Chap. 



1. The extreme smalluess of insects ag ^ 



2. Whether insects respire, and whether they have blood .. ..' 3 



3. The bodies of insects 



4. Bees s 



o. The order displayed in the works of bees .. .. '.'. .. [\ fa. 



6. The meaning of the terms commosis, pissoceros, and propolis ! " 6 



7. The meaning of erithace, sandaraca, or cerinthos 7 



8. What flowers are used by the bees in their work .".' .. # 



9. Persons who have made bees their study .... g 



10. The mode in which bees work ," ." 'it 



11. Drones l~ 



12. The qualities of honey \\ \[ \\ " ■.-. 



13. Where the best honey is produced .... [] " 10 

 ] -4. The kinds of honey peculiar to various places . . ,3 



15. How honey is tested. Ericamm. Tetralix, or sisirum " " 14 



16. The reproduction of bees lfi 



17. The mode of government of the bees .. .. *' \\ lg 



18. Happy omens sometimes afforded by a swarm of 'bees' 19 



19. The various kinds of bees 20 



20. The diseases of bees "" " 21 



21. Things that are noxious to bees .' "" *" " 29 



22. How to keep bees to the hive .....',' 23 



23. Methods of renewing the swarm [ "lb 



2-i. Wasps and hornets: animals which appropriate* what 'belongs 'to 



others ~a 



25. The bombyx of Assyria \\ 95 



f 7 l} e l ™ of the silk-worm— whofirst'invented silk cloths ' " ' ib. 



27. 1 he silk- worm of Cos-how the Coan vestments are made . . 26 

 M. bpiders; the kinds that make webs; the materials used by them 

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